Sony Ericsson T310 MMS gaming mobile unveiled
Sony Ericsson T310 mobile phone unveiled featuring Activision’s
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4® and MMS05 March
2003  Sony
Ericsson unveiled the T310 – a colour screen mobile phone with
a very strong gaming and imaging offering, which will begin shipping
during this week in selected markets. Pre-loaded in the phone comes
one of the best-selling video game console titles, Activision’s
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4®, which is making its European, Latin
American and Asian mobile debut on the Sony Ericsson T310 mobile phone.
The
T310 mobile phone offers great gameplay with its joystick and colour
display, also taking advantage of its 32 polyphonic sounds and vibrating
force feedback to bring as much as possible of the game console feeling
to the mobile environment. Consumers will be able to enjoy the Tony
Hawk’s Pro Skater 4® game as soon as they unpack their T310.
They can explore two different levels of skateboarding gameplay using
several popular skater characters including Tony Hawk. Tony
Hawk’s Pro Skater 4® comes to the T310 though an agreement
between Sony Ericsson and Jamdat Mobile, a leading publisher of mobile
game content. Additionally, users can download other mobile phone games
using the Synergenix Mophun platform, for which there are approximately
50 game titles available. Together with the MCA-25 digital camera
attachment and its MMS and email capabilities, the T310 is ideal for
imaging and messaging. The T310 offers superior MMS messaging capability
with personalized image formatting, making it possible to add frames
etc to the images. Additional MMS Home Studio PC software, which provides
an easy way to compose MMS-messages on a PC and then send them from
the phone. “With our T300, we were the first company to
launch a color-screen gaming, imaging and MMS-phone for the mass market
and with the T310 we further strengthen our product offering in this
category,” says Philip Vanhoutte, Corporate Vice President Marketing
at Sony Ericsson. For its operator customers, Sony Ericsson
will offer advanced gameplay levels for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
4®, as well as other action sports titles including Kelly Slater’s
Pro-Surfer™ and complete packages of MMStemplates, screensavers
and polyphonic ring signals based on the music from the games. These
will take full advantage of the 32-tone polyphonic capabilities of
the T310, which further enrich the nuances of the music and sound.
Additionally, other Jamdat games including the extremely popular Jamdat
Bowling will come to the Mophun platform as part of the Sony Ericsson
– Jamdat relationship. “We are pleased to partner
with Sony Ericsson to bring exciting mobile phone content to Europe,”
said Mitch Lasky, CEO of Jamdat Mobile Inc. “Jamdat partnered
with Activision to co-publish Activision’s “O2” action
sports titles including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4® for mobile
phones. This is a key part of our vision to drive the adoption and
future success of nextgeneration mobile entertainment.”
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